Install a new Drupal Application with Acquia Cloud IDE

Open your Cloud IDE
Click the “Reset Workspace” button or execute:

/ide/reset-workspace.py

Clone your Cloud Platform repo inside the project folder:
To find your Git URL, from your Acquia Cloud Platform Application page, go to any of the environments admin pages (dev, test, prod):

Clone your repo to the current project folder:

git clone eelsignorelli@svn-45062.prod.hosting.acquia.com:eelsignorelli.git .

Create a new branch called “new-site”:

git branch new-site

List all local branches:

git branch

Switch to the “new-site” branch:

git checkout new-site

Create a folder to install the new site:

mkdir newsite

Create a new Drupal application inside the newsite folder:

acli new newsite

Acquia recommends most customers use acquia/drupal-recommended-project to setup a Drupal project, which includes useful utilities such as Acquia Connector. Acquia/next-acms is a starter template for building a headless site powered by Acquia CMS and Next.js.

Choose a starting project [acquia/drupal-recommended-project]:
[0] acquia/drupal-recommended-project
[1] acquia/next-acms
> 0

Get inside the newsite folder:

cd newsite/

Remove all git files and the .git folder from the newly created Drupal application:

rm .editorconfig
rm .gitattributes
rm .gitignore
rm -rf .git

Go back to the project folder:

cd /home/ide/project

Copy and replace all the files from the newsite folder to the project folder

cp -r /home/ide/project/newsite/. /home/ide/project/

Remove the newsite folder:

rm -rf newsite/

Go to the Drupal Installation Wizard to finish the installation:
On the Cloud IDE menu, go to “Manage Drupal Application” -> “Open Drupal Application”.

On the Database configuration step, use the following:

Database name: drupal
User: drupal
Password: drupal

You should see your new Drupal site after you finish the installation:

Go back to the Cloud IDE terminal and push the changes to the repo:

git add -A
git commit -m "New site."
git push origin new-site

If you receive the following error:

fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository

Execute the following git command to push the current branch and set the remote as upstream:

git push --set-upstream origin new-site

Push the database to the dev environment:

acli push:database

My Cloud IDE:~/project (new-site) $ acli push:database

Using Cloud Application Leonardo Signorelli Employee Free

 Choose a Cloud Platform environment [dev, dev (vcs: tags/leo-1.1.0)]:
  [0] dev, dev (vcs: tags/leo-1.1.0)
  [1] Prod Backup, ode1 (vcs: tags/leo-1.1.0)
  [2] test, test (vcs: tags/leo-1.1.0)
 > 0

 Overwrite the eelsignorelli database on dev with a copy of the database from the current machine? (yes/no) [yes]:

 > yes

    ✔ Creating local database dump
    ✔ Uploading database dump to remote machine
    ✔ Importing database dump into MySQL on remote machine

My Cloud IDE:~/project (new-site) $

Push the files to the dev environment:

acli push:files

My Cloud IDE:~/project (new-site) $ acli push:files

Using Cloud Application Leonardo Signorelli Employee Free

 Choose a Cloud Platform environment [dev, dev (vcs: tags/leo-1.1.0)]:
  [0] dev, dev (vcs: tags/leo-1.1.0)
  [1] Prod Backup, ode1 (vcs: tags/leo-1.1.0)
  [2] test, test (vcs: tags/leo-1.1.0)
 > 0

 Overwrite the public files directory on dev with a copy of the files from the current machine? (yes/no) [yes]:

 > yes

    ✔ Pushing public files directory to remote machine

My Cloud IDE:~/project (new-site) $

Login to your Cloud Platform, go to the environments page and click the Dev environment’s “Switch code” button: